Welcome to Saint Anthony's, Balfron

We are a Community of Faith with a warm welcome for our regular parishioners and visitors alike.

Mass Times

11 am Sunday Morning

10 am Monday Morning (Most Mondays! Announced at Sunday Mass)

Sacrament of Reconciliation by appointment.

Please see the News page for other Mass/Service times e.g. Holy Days of Obligation

There is always Coffee/Tea, biscuits and a nice chat after Sunday 11am Mass.

How to find us

We are situated on Dunmore Street, Balfron. Opposite the bus station.

St Anthony of Padua

Our Patron Saint is St. Anthony of Padua
Doctor of the Church
b.1195, d.1231
Feast Day: 13th June

There is perhaps no more loved and admired saint in the Catholic Church than Saint Anthony of Padua, a Doctor of the Church. Though his work was in Italy, he was born in Portugal. He first joined the Augustinian Order and then left it and joined the Franciscan
Order in 1221, when he was 26 years old. The reason he became a Franciscan was because of the death of the five Franciscan protomartyrs -- St. Bernard, St. Peter, St. Otho, St. Accursius, and St. Adjutus -- who shed their blood for the Catholic Faith in the
year 1220, in Morocco, in North Africa, and whose headless and mutilated bodies had been brought to St. Anthony’s monastery on their way back for burial. St. Anthony became a Franciscan in the hope of shedding his own blood and becoming a martyr. He lived
only ten years after joining the Franciscan Order.

So simple and resounding was his teaching of the Catholic Faith, so that the most unlettered and innocent might understand it, that he was made a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946. Saint Anthony was only 36 years old when he died. He is called the
“hammer of the Heretics” His great protection against their lies and deceits in the matter of Christian doctrine was to utter, simply and innocently, the Holy Name of Mary. When St. Anthony of Padua found he was preaching the true Gospel of the Catholic Church
to heretics who would not listen to him, he then went out and preached it to the fishes. This was not, as liberals and naturalists are trying to say, for the instruction of the fishes, but rather for the glory of God, the delight of the angels, and the easing
of his own heart. St. Anthony wanted to profess the Catholic Faith with his mind and his heart, at every moment.

He is typically depicted with a book and the Infant Child Jesus, to whom He miraculously appeared, and is commonly referred to today as the "finder of lost articles." Upon exhumation, some 336 years after his death, his body was found to be corrupted, yet his
tongue was totally incorrupt, so perfect were the teachings that had been formed upon it.

St Anthony's is a Parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh,